Reading List
- Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
Vitalik Buterin
- How your startup can survive technical debt
How can a startup use technical debt to survive and thrive? Technical debt is hard to avoid completely but startups can use it to their advantage.
- How we compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money
Lawrence Jones
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29 Dec 2020
Compression is a trick that can be used to solve a load of problems. Outside of well known use cases, there are a variety of opportunities to improve efficiency or save money by leveraging compression. This post covers one such opportunity, where a tiny change allowed us to save >$30k per year in in…
- What’s good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs
Offset pagination gets a bad rap because it's backend inefficient, but it's actually a nice feature from a consumer's perspective. How to bring those advantages to cursor-based APIs.
- My year in data
samplesize.one
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1 Jan 2021
What do I actually do with my time? How productive am I? I logged everything I did in 2020 and got some pretty cool data out of this.
- Castlevania III Password Algorithm
Meatfighter
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1 Jan 2021
This article explains the mechanism Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse uses to save and restore game state through the medium of passwords.
- How to Stop Endless Discussions
When we find ourselves in endless debates where everyone defends their idea, we don’t know how to handle the situation. We eventually find a way out, but what we need is an excellent system.
- I don’t let design and UX get in the way of shipping early and often
Sam Texas
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2 Jan 2021
I don’t let design/UX influence the early stages of product development. Instead I rely on opinionated frameworks like Django and Bootstrap to take that burden.
- URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
Luke Miles
This Christmas, a family member sent me a URL to a family Zoom call. However, they didn’t send me a direct link to Zoom.
- Encrypted Backup Shootout
acha.ninja
- The design flaws of password managers
Go350
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3 Jan 2021
I once worked in highly regulated environments and needed a way to recall dozens of complex passwords that changed frequently. I tried to use a password manager, but could not due to the burdens and insecurity of some common design flaws.
- CVE Stuffing
Jerry Gamblin
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17 Dec 2020
As Michael Roytman told me, “The only thing worse than no data is bad data”, and that is what is happening here; the CVE database is being stuffed with bad data.
- Setting up personal OKR
My approach to creating OKR for the personal life. In this article, I’ve tried covering different aspects of the personal life and created specific and measurable goals for them.
- Curved Text Along a Path
Geoff Graham
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1 Jan 2020
We can flow text along a curved line with three tools built right into SVG.